FlashReport Weblog on California Politics

Posted by Katy Grimes at 1:01 am on Nov 01, 2017 Comments Off on Free Speech Clashing With CA Legislature and Govt. Colleges​

Last week the California ​State Senate held
the second committee hearing in two weeks on “hate speech” couched
as “Violent Protests and Police Response.” Democrats were once
again seeking approval for legislation on thought crimes.

This is a dangerous path as countries
without a First Amendment have demonstrated. Writer Andrew
Sullivansays,… Read More

Posted by Katy Grimes at 6:46 am on May 04, 2016 Comments Off on Grimes Wins Press Credential Appeal Against Capitol Media and Legislature

Freedom of the press protects the right to obtain and publish
information or opinions without government censorship or fear of
punishment, whether or not government finds the material offensive,
or disagrees with it.

Free speech enables people to obtain information from a
diversity of sources, make decisions, and communicate those
decisions to the government.

Recently I wrote about having my press credential renewal denied
by the Capitol Correspondents Association of California, appointed
as an arm of the California Legislature’s Joint Rules Committee,
which has the final say in press credentialing… Read More

Posted by Katy Grimes at 6:58 am on Jan 14, 2016 Comments Off on Report Negatively About the Legislature; Lose Your Seat in the Press Box

I’ve written several times since 2009 about the ridiculous
hassles I’ve had with the manypress credential hold-ups at
the hands of the Capitol Correspondents Association and Assembly
Speaker’s press office.

“Statehouse leaders affirmed a committee of journalists’
recommendation to reject press credentials for Watchdog.org,
raising questions about both journalistic ethics and the First
Amendment in the state’s vetting process, ethics experts say,” a
recent
Watchdog.org story reported. It could be my story.

I’ve been in a battle once again with the Capitol Correspondents Association
of California media cartel over my annual request for
Capitolpresscredentials renewal. I was informed at the
end of the legislative session that the CCAC denied my
request. Their reason this time is because the publisher of
the Flash Report, one of the websites where I post my articles and
columns, has a political consulting business, and the CCAC board
feels payments to him violate the CCAC bylaws.

Posted by Katy Grimes at 8:44 am on Sep 21, 2013 Comments Off on FPPC imposes regulation on political bloggers

The California Fair Political Practices Commission just ruled
this week to require campaign committees to report to the State who
they pay to post “favorable or unfavorable” content on blogs,
social media or online videos, on their campaign finance
statements.

The committees will also have to report the name of the website
where the content appears.

The long arm of the government has found a chilling new way to
intimidate new-media.

Political bloggers writing online will be subjected to new
disclosure rules under state regulations the Fair Political
Practices Commission approved Thursday.

Here’s how the State, under California Code Section 82013,
defines a “committee”:

“Committee” means any person or combination of persons who
directly or indirectly does any, of the following: (a) Receives
contributions totaling one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in a
calendar year. (b) Makes independent expenditures totaling one
thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in a calendar year; or (c) Makes
contributions totaling ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more in a
calendar year to or at the behest of candidates or committees. A
person or… Read More

Posted by Katy Grimes at 10:45 am on Aug 03, 2012 Comments Off on Special interests could fil-A the Dems

Only hours after the Democratic National Committee announced
that the 2012 platform would endorse same-sex marriage, a group of
black pastors came out swinging, and saying that they feel betrayed
by President Barack Obama.

“We voted for Obama. We campaigned for Obama. But he has left
our founding purposes,” Rev. William Owens Sr., the founder of the
coalition of African American Pastors, told World Net Daily. “With
all of the problems in America within the black community –
education, jobs, business, the economy – with all of our problems,
he chooses to get in front of same-sex marriage,” he continued.
“That flies in the face of the African-American community.

“We feel betrayed.”

Could same-sex marriage issue fil-A the Dems?

Simultaneously, the Chick-fil-A controversy exploded, but in a
good way.

Gay rights activists and other partisan liberals plan a national
“Kiss In” at Chick-fil-A restaurants today to protest the
restaurant owners’ position on traditional marriage. In a stunt
worthy of junior high school antics, organizers are asking all gay
activists to show up at Chick-fil-A locations and kiss one
other… Read More